Tumblr integration trials

[angelophile]

Not sure if it's wanted or not, but I'm trying to set up, via a convoluted method and Feedburner, a way to get my Tumblr posting to Livejournal as well in a similar way to the Twitter feed. But I'm not sure whether it's going to work, or work how I want it to, so consider today a trial.

I've been increasingly using Tumblr over the past few weeks and I'm usually obsessed with getting everything all under one roof, so to speak, so Tumblr, Livejournal and Twitter are all integrated. Of course, the other way to do it would be to create a separate account for my Tumblr feed. Say, like this as angelophile_tum, which people could subscribe to. But my obsessive compulsiveness wishes that there were a way to automatically crosspost from Tumblr to my LJ (as there is vice versa) or feed RSS directly into my existing Livejournal instead of creating a new RSS feed for it.

Although, what would people prefer? The separate RSS feed that can be syndicated through a Friends list? Or an email digest feeding directly into this journal? I guess the former gives everyone the choice of whether to read Tumblr stuff rather than have it foisted upon you. Plus it shows (or should show) individual posts rather than the digest format.

ETA: Complete failure with the email experiment, so that means the syndicated journal is the way to go. SO! If you do want to read the content of my Tumblr here on Livejournal, that's the way to go. It should all be up and running now.

Comments

[shadow-weaver.livejournal.com]

so what exactly is tumblr and how does it work?

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

It's basically a blogging site/tool that integrates all the tools in one easy space. Actually very user friendly, I'll give it that. It differs from Livejournal in that, because it's so easy to share videos, images, etc, it tends to be used more for that sort of thing than full on blogging.

For example, here's the dashboard:



So, you just click the appropriate button at the top and you can upload images and share them, embed Youtube and other flash video, share links, etc.

And it's easy to reblog someone else's entry or like it if you want to share it with your friends.

A lot of them seem to be themed blogs on a certain subject. Mine's just a mish mash of any links I like, videos, pictures, fanart I like, etc

You can see what I've been posting on the syndicated feed at angelophile_tum and my Tumblr itself is angelophile.tumblr.com (http://angelophile.tumblr.com).